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Spotted garden eel
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The spotted garden eel is a slender, tube-dwelling marine fish recognizable by its pale body covered in numerous black spots. It spends most of its life partially buried in sandy substrates, with only its head and upper body protruding to feed on plankton drifting by in the curr…
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- Despite living in large groups, spotted garden eels maintain strict personal space and will fiercely defend the area around their burrow.
- Spotted garden eels rarely leave their burrows, even to mate—they twist their bodies together from adjacent holes. Their colonies can cover large areas, resembling underwater gardens swaying in the current.
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